SolutionBecause Oracle Linux 7 (and Redhat 7) use systemd rather than initd for starting/restarting processes and runs them as a service the current software install of both 11.2.0.4 & 12.1.0.1 will not succeed because the ohasd process does not start properly.

In OL7 it needs to be set up as a service so the following step is required BEFORE you run root.sh when prompted